Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...privilege of successful genius to demand its due and the desire of the populace to accord it, especially if no material consideration is involved. But in the partisanship of the Smithsonian Institute in behalf of the Langley airplane, Orville Wright, co-designer with his brother of the first man-carrying machine, finds that credit is stinted the achievement. His subsequent disposition of the Kitty Hawk plane as a gift to the South Kensington Museum is decidedly a mark of displeasure that benefits the English institution while depriving the American one of a monument to courage and ingenuity, as well...
Since the legendary exploit of Icarus man has been trying to find a means of flight, and many famous names are associated with the attempts. Now that the immediate end has been accomplished, it seems trivial for the Smithsonian Institute to quibble with one of the inventors who were chiefly responsible for the success. It is of little import whether the contributions of the Wrights were or were not minor improvements which only added the finishing touches to a mechanism almost complete. The fact remains that they gave final impetus to what is now one of the greatest of modern...
Last week the U. S. Senators: ¶Amended and passed the House's bill appropriating some 540 millions to maintain independent executive branches of the government, such as the Bureau of Efficiency, the Civil Service Commission, the Smithsonian Institution. President Coolidge's salary ($75,000 per annum) was an item...
...famed air museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., where the Spirit of St. Louis will be rolled to rest after her current journeys, the world's first airplane may be forever a notable absentee. Last week the machine in which the Wright Brothers made their inaugural flight at Kittyhawk, N. C., in 1903, started for a London museum...
Patriots pounced upon Orville Wright in Dayton crying: "Why?" Mr. Wright had his reasons. The first was the Kittyhawk flight. The second was famed Samuel Pierpont Langley, onetime secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Able Langley had made many experiments in aviation including the construction of a machine capable of sustaining man in flight. When, some years gone, the Smithsonian wrote the Wrights for a machine, the original "wings of man" was offered. It was gently refused with the suggestion that a later Wright machine might be preferable. It seems that the Smithsonian, honoring their secretary, had already in residence...